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The South African personal income tax base, 2011–2018: Income and taxable income, adjusted for retirement fund and medical expense reporting changesTax administration statistics now provide considerably more complete and reliable measures of South African personal income and its distribution than the available household or other survey sources...
Income distribution Personal income tax StatisticsWorking Paper
International migration and income inequalityIn this paper we explore the links between international migration and income inequality...
International migration Income inequality Income distributionBook Chapter
Explaining income inequality trends: An integrated approachIn large parts of the world, income inequality has been rising in recent decades. Other regions have experienced declining trends in income inequality...
Education Income distributionWorking Paper
Structural features of the Mozambique economy through the lens of a 2019 social accounting matrixThis study presents and discusses structural features of the Mozambique economy through the lens of a recently constructed 2019 social accounting matrix (SAM)...
Social Accounting Matrix National accounts Supply tableWorking Paper
Who was impacted and how? COVID-19 pandemic and the long uneven recovery in IndiaWe investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityWorking Paper
Inequality and human development: The role of different parts of the income distributionIn this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential effect associated with the concentration of national income at different parts of the income distribution...
Human development Inequality InstitutionsJournal Article
What sustains informality?: A study of interactions between formal and informal sector firmsPart of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
Informal sector Income distribution Supply and demandJournal Article
The impact of indirect tax on income distribution and poverty in TanzaniaThis study analyses the impacts of indirect tax benefits policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8...
Income distribution SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulationBlog
Corona pandemic revealed gaps in African social security systems
Millions of Africans lost their jobs as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but state social security systems were of little help to people who lost their income...
COVID-19 Income distribution PovertyPolicy Brief
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Labour market projections and time allocation in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelMyanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour...
Myanmar Child labour Education reformWorking Paper
Taxation and income distribution in Myanmar: Application of a new computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelDespite major public finance reform efforts over the last decade, Myanmarese public finances continue to be characterized by relative weakness in revenue collection, budget execution, and long-term sustainability...
Myanmar Tax reform Economic efficiencyWorking Paper
The effect of fiscal drag on income distribution and work incentives: A microsimulation analysis on selected African countriesAlthough the effect of fiscal drag is well studied in the industrialized world, empirical evidence from developing economies remains limited...
Inflation Income tax Fiscal dragPolicy Brief
